In the coming days, the Senate will consider whether or not to release records relating to possible UFO sightings to the public.
The move has bipartisan support, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) are supporting the effort to force the disclosure of information relating to aerial phenomena.
The 64-page proposal penned by the senators is modeled after the 1992 U.S. law spelling out the handling of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The measure should be offered as an amendment to sweeping legislation moving through Congress that is addressing U.S. defense funding.
The amendment would require the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to collect UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena, from all relevant government offices under “a presumption of immediate disclosure.” A review board would also be formed to help determine whether or not documents should remain classified.
“For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained, and it’s long past time they get some answers,” Schumer said in a statement on Friday.
The senator also said the public “has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.”
Rounds, a member of the Senate’s Intelligence and Armed Services committees, shared that their goal is to “assure credibility with regard to any investigation or record keeping of materials” in relation to UAPs.
The measure would require records to be publicly disclosed in full no later than 25 years after they were created unless the U.S. president decides to keep them classified because of direct harm to national security.
It would also give the federal government “eminent domain” over any recovered technologies of unknown origin and any biological evidence of “non-human intelligence” that private individuals or entities may have in their possession.
Schumer and Rounds are not the first members of Congress to want UFOs to be examined further, as several other elected officials have also made comments in recent weeks about them.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) recently shared his support for providing more information to the public about UFOs.
“What I think we owe is just a mature understanding, listening and trying to put all these pieces together and just intake the information without any prejudgment or jumping to any conclusions,” Rubio said during an interview with NewsNation.
His comments came on the heels of a Newsweek survey that found almost three out of every five Americans think the government is hiding information about UFOs.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) also commented this week about UFOs when asked by reporters whether or not he believed in aliens.
“I will continue to see, but I think if we had found a UFO, I think the Department of Defense would tell us because they probably want to request more money,” McCarthy responded.
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